Guest Column – By Thom Hartmann – The Republican Party is increasingly clear about its goal: Make America Russia, or at least Russia’s mini-me, Hungary. They are openly embracing a modern, westernized, Christian white supremacy-based version of classic fascism. And the MAGAT Republicans have a three-step process to bring it about that they’re already putting…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After spending some time this week thinking about the world of 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London published Principia Mathematica — with a little MAGA Republican distraction thrown in — I’ve stumbled on to another epiphany. Newton’s Laws Work:…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The former national chairman of the right-wing, pro-Trump Proud Boys organization was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison this week for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you pay the slightest attention to what’s going on in the world, sometimes the irony hits you in the face like a blast of 100 degree August heat at the airport. On this day 60 years ago, Martin Luther King expressed a dream…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Within days of moving to the nation’s capital in 2004, I was the last reporter hired by States News Service operating out of a cool newsroom on Pennsylvania Avenue, a couple of blocks from the White House. It was right near a Metro tunnel,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was as hot as I believed hot could get when I landed at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans in the midst of the first August of the new millennium. Even in a summer Searsucker Suit the hot air hit you…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the themes that emerges from this life analysis is that kids need heroes to inspire and emulate. That’s why it’s so important for young women to have role models, along with African Americans and other minorities in America. All I can do…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you ever feel like you are marking time, waiting for something to happen? Something that is supposed to happen, but the timing is not yet right? I was thinking that recently when watching the movie “Field of Dreams.” “The one constant through all…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A person with character may pickup a few nicknames in a life. A famous Baptist preacher once called me “Cowboy,” and it stuck. That worked for a couple of decades, and I was locally famous as the only drummer to ever wear a cowboy…
“The first thing every totalitarian regime does along with confiscation and mutilation of reality is confiscation of history and confiscation of culture.” – Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Introduction WASHINGTON, D.C. — When I first walked into the administration building of an Alabama community…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In my dreams it sometimes seems possible to solve all the world’s problems with only the abstract expression of a correct thought derived from empirical observation. But in the waking life of living, breathing human beings, this would only work if all were rational,…
Lincoln Project Calls Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville a ‘Traitor’ – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This all must seem very confusing to people sampling a little news on cable TV and social media. With the death of American newspapers and a downward trend in reading by people in general,…
Superorganism: Toward a New Social Contract for Our Endangered Species – Published online by Cambridge University Press – June 23, 2023 – Editor’s Note: As I’ve been writing for many years, the future of humanity on planet Earth is in jeopardy and there is no guarantee we will survive for much longer. Like many naysayers,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was interesting to see what CIA Director William J. Burns had to say about all the craziness going on in the world and the role of “intelligence” in a recent Washington Post guest column, especially considering he had previously turned down an interview…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thank Lady Justice that the Supreme Court has adjourned for the summer — before they do any further damage to American Democracy. No doubt Justice Sam Alito is off on an all expenses paid fishing trip somewhere, maybe Alaska,…
Legal Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With another stroke of their blood-soaked computer keyboards, the activist judges on the Trump-Bush conservative Supreme Court might as well have taken an axe to the Constitutional separation of powers and splintered the power of the Executive branch to make policy on matters it is…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After Donald Trump faced arraignment on charges Tuesday for mishandling classified documents critical to national defense, conspiracy to obstruct justice by concealing the possession of said documents and making false statements to the FBI, there was only a small contingent of Trump supporters gathered…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s an advantage in gaining wisdom the longer you live, the older you get. There are advantages to staying active on social media. But there are also drawbacks, like getting blindsided by blasts from the past you do not necessary relish. Like a recent…
‘God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Probably the most significant victory to celebrate on Memorial Day is the defeat of fascism and the Nazis…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare, one of a kind case proving that there was indeed law enforcement involvement in the seditious conspiracy leading up to the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a Metropolitan Police Lieutenant was arrested last week after being indicted by a grand jury and…
